Lock for fire-arms



(No Model.)

0. E. GOO'DWINY LOOK FOR FIRE ARMS;

N0. 342,509. Patented May 25, I886.

- W22 asses. Iz/ezzim .UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. j

CHARLES E. eoonwm, or SAYBROOK, OHIO. 1

LOOK FOR FIRE-ARMS.

.fiBBCQEIQATIONIorming part of Letters Patent No. 342,509,6ated May 25,1886. I Application filed March 9, 1886. Serial No. 194,592. (No model.)

, To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. GooDWIN,

"of Saybrook, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new barrels at once, or one barrel at a time, as

may be desired.

That the construction of the mechanismof the gun for the purposespecified may be fully understood, reference will be made to thedrawings making a part .of the following 7, specification, inwhichdrawings- Figurel represents a side view of a portion of the breech of agun and the lock secured thereto. Fig. 2 is an inside view of one of thelocks. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the two locks, showing their relation toeach other when attaehed to the breech. Said breech is not shown inFig.3.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

The lock above referred to is or may be like an ordinary gun-lock; hencea brief 'description only will be essential for a full understanding ofthe improvements thereof.

As shown in the drawings, Arepresents the breech of the gun; 'B,the'plate to which the lock mechanism is attached. G is the mainspring;I), the bridle; E, the tumbler; F,

the sear; G, the sear-spring; H, the trigger; I,

- the hammer, all of which parts are substantially the same as ordinarygun-locks, as above remarked. The two locks diii'er from each other onlyin being right and left handed.

Double-barrelled gunsareprovided withtwo locks adapted to each barrel,and each lock has a trigger for loosening the lock for firing; hence thetwo barrels cannot conveniently be discharged at once-that is to say,simultaneously-which is. sometimes desirable on the part of the hunter;also, constructing the gun with two locks and with two triggers adds tothe expense of the gun, and when each trigger is protected by a guardthe guards are much in the way of each other in manipulating thetriggers, and if one guard is used to protect both triggers, which issometimes the case, the guard, necessarily alarge one, gives a clumsyappearance to the gun.

To avoid the expense of providing." each lock with a trigger, and toenable both barrels of the gun to be discharged at once or separately,as the case may be, the locks of the gun'herein described are operatedby a single trigger, so that both barrels can be discharged at the sametime or singly.

- The operation of the several elements of the looks (as shown in thedrawings) for cocking,&c.,'is the same as in ordinary gun-locks, and toowell known to need being described in detail in this place. It will benoticed in Fig. 3 of the drawings that the trigger H is arranged midwaybetween the two sears F, which are put in connection with the trigger bythe arms J and J, which extend from their respective locks to the.trigger and lap thereon, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. From theabove-described contact of the arms J J with the trigger, it will beobvious that on cooking the two locks they will be operated on by thetrigger for firing at the same instant, as the trigger will release thetwo sears from their respective tumblers simultaneously. On cocking thetwo locks the scars G and their respective arms are pushed upward by thetumblers and retained half or wholly cocked by the notches in thetumbler,in the ordinary way. It only one of the locks is cooked, andconsequently the scar lifted, as indicated by the dotted lines a,alluded to, the other look remains as shown in Fig. 2, with thesear inan unlocked position. Now,on pulling the trigger for loosening thecooked look, its sear is pushed upward, causing the hammer to fall. Atthe same time the scar of the uncooked look is also pushed upward; butas it is uncocked there can be no further action of its mechanism.Thelock is inoperative at the time while the companion lock is incondition for firing.

From the above it will be apparent that the fire-arm can have the twobarrels simultaneously discharged, or either of them singly, and that bythe use of one trigger only.

ICO

hat I cle-i ni my invenbion, ahd desire to seeureby Letters Patent,'is-.

In a doublebzprreled gumandin combination i with the hammeixsthereofltwdsears en gagingrespectiveiy,-the gtumblers 'of the hammers.

bye single pullof the triggerwill fire the tivo baryels eonseeuti-veiy,-substantially as 16 described. In testimo y whereof I affix mysignaturein presence of two'witnesses. CHARLES E. GOODWIN- Witnesses: i I

E. WV; BURNETT, 0. K. LATIMER.

